Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft’s SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing performance on ...

Microsoft is changing some of its licensing rules, which are already complex. Here’s what small businesses should know.

"It's really about choice," Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's General Manager, Database Systems, told me yesterday as he briefed me on the new offerings. Kumar further explained: "if you're a developer, you ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open source, ...

Microsoft has introduced native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025, calling it a “storage revolution” due to the potential performance gains it delivers. Modern NVMe devices, including PCIe Gen5 SSDs ...

Microsoft is releasing a public preview of the next version of its SQL Server database, which will work on Linux and Windows, both. Microsoft released a private preview of SQL Server for Linux in ...